The 30 best online programs for veterans
The treatment of veteran (and active military) students has been in the news a lot lately -- but for all the wrong reasons. <br / In May, student…
Online Learning
Why it’s either death or moving online
Colby-Sawyer College is a classic New England school, with 176 years of undergraduate history amid 200 acres of brick buildings and tree-lined walks, nestled in a pretty New…
Innovation corner: New freedom with online learning
The base level of technological savvy has surely risen on college campuses over the past half decade, and with that rise has come growing expectations for flexibility in…
Busting online learning myths
For the last year, we’ve been working with Digital Learning Now! (DLN), a national campaign supported by ExcelinEd, to tackle eight big topics ... Read more
How online learning is reinventing college
Students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) are not automatically required to go to class. So you notice when, on a lousy midwinter evening in a driving…
How online class about online learning failed miserably
In the you-can’t-make-up-this-stuff category, here’s an amusing piece about the failure of a MOOC (massive open online course) that was designed to teach more than 40,000 students the…
Report: Credit-hour model outdated, inefficient
Colleges and universities are holding back a competency-based credit hour system in higher education, even as the federal government has signaled support for the nontraditional credit-earning model, according…
17 more top universities offer free cyber courses
Seventeen more leading universities in the U.S. and abroad will start offering free online courses through the online education platform Coursera, the company said Sept. 19.
New distance learning agreement draft forthcoming
Drafters of an interstate agreement on distance learning in higher education are entering the final stages of creating a model agreement that would make it much easier for…
The role of smartpens in the flipped classroom
When I decided to flip my classroom last year, I was faced with the challenge of engaging both my already highly-motivated students, and those who were slightly less…
